Elena Nikitina

Holding hands, Dayaana and her beloved only daughter Sandaara, walked through an endless forest for a long time. Eventually they reach a distant, unrecognized village full of strange inhabitants and strange happenings. The residents themselves are astonished by Dayaana since they cannot see her daughter...

The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matriarchal—men are present but play secondary roles. The film’s space is filled with rituals: fortune-telling, herb gathering, and bathing. Here, the sacred is intertwined with the mundane. The daughters follow the life paths of their mother, who once traced the steps of the older women in the family.